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(No Model.)

J. H. TURVEY.

MACHINE. FOR CUTTING BAGS OR OTHER MATERIAL.

No. 368,435. Patented Aug. 16, 1887.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFF CE.

JOHN HENRY TURVEY, OF EAST MALLING, COUNTY OF KENT, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE FREDERICK BUSBRIDGE, OF SAME PLAOE.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING RAGS OR OTHER MATERIAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,435, dated August 16, 1887.

Application filed November 16, 1886. Serial No. 219,003. (No model.) Patented in England June 10,1880, No. 7,800, and in France October 27, 1886, No, 179,282.

To aZZ whom it may concern: tween the projections of the other, and the Be it known that 1, JOHN HENRY TURVEY, relative positions of the knives being prefer engineer, a subject of the Queen of Great ably angled or inclined with respect to each Britain and Ireland, and residing at East other, so that the cutting maycominence from Malling, in the county of Kent, England, have one end or point. This gives the shearing invented certain new and useful Improveaction referred to. The one knife, D, is fixed ments in Machines for Cutting Rags or other horizontally at the end of the trough A, and Materials, (for which George Frederick Busthe other, D", is moved vertically or others bridge and I have obtained British Patent No. wise. This may be effected by an overhead 1:) 7,800, dated June 10, 1886, and the said crank-shaft, E, and connecting-rod (or rods) George Frederick Busbridge has obtained a F, attached to this knife-carrier G, to which French patent, No. 179,282, dated October the movable knife is fixed. This carrierG 27, 1886,) of which the following is a spccifislides in Vertical guides formed in the fram cation. 7 ing H; or the moving knife can be attached {5 The object of this invention is to provide a to a revolving roll or cylinder, as shown in 6 machine simple in construction and efficient Fig. 3, so that the teeth of the knives thereon in action,which will cut the rags or other mapass the teeth of the fixed knife during the terial (such, for example, as rope) more effirevolution of the said roll or cylinder, which ciently than will machines for the purpose as can take place continuously or intermittently. 2o hitherto constructed. The feed-rollers O C may be driven inter- 0 I will describe the invention with reference mittently in the proper direction by a pawl, to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 of I, and ratchet-wheel I, actuated from the which is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 a same crank-shaft E, and the delivery-speed sectional plan, of a machine constructed aeof the rollers to vary the length of the mate- 25 cording to this invention. Fig. 3 is a perrial when out may be regulated by altering spective view of the knives separately. the throw of the pawl. As the materials are I provide a trough, A, into which the rags cut in thick layers or cakes, they may be sepor other materials to be out are fed, which arated and opened out by falling into a dis may be effected by a strap or moving apron, tributer formed by a rapidly-revolving roller, 0 B, on which the rags or other materials are K, on the periphery of which are projections placed; or the feeding may be effected by k, and this roller may throw the material forhand, if desired. The apron B is moved or ward to any required receptacle.

drawn along by being passed round a revolv- Although thedrawings show two knives, it ing roller, 0, the said roller being the bottom will be evident that a double set or more of 35 one of a pair of rollers, 0 0 between which them may be employed, if necessary. the rags or other materials pass. The pe- I am aware of the machine for granulating riphery of the upper roller, G, is hexagonal cocoanuts, patented J une10, 1878, No. 139,804; or otherwise formed with a number of sides; but that machine differs from mine not only or it may be fluted or grooved longitudinally, in the form of the teeth, but also in the im- 0 as shown, to assist the traveling and delivery portant particular, among others, that the '90 of the rags or other materials to between two toothed feed roller over the cutter-cylinder knives, D D acting as shears. These knives would prevent the feed of such materials as should not be in one straight line across the rags directly to the euttingedges in the manmachine, but should extend in a direction ner I have shown and described.

45 lengthwise as well as transversely, so as to cut I claim as my inventionthe materials simultaneously in both direc- 1. A machine for cutting rags and other tions in square or other shapes. I prefer for material, provided with a pair of shearing this purpose knives shaped like the teeth of a blades, both having corresponding cutting saw, as shown in Fig. 3, the projections of edges substantially in the form of saw-teeth,

50 one passing closely through the spaces bein connection wit-h a feed-trough to deliver the material directly to the said cutting-edges, In testimony whereof I-have signed my name as and for the purpose set forth. to this specification in the presence of two 10 2. A machine for cutting rags and other subscribing witnesses.

material, provided with a pair of shearing- JOHN HENRY TURVEY. 5 blades, both having corresponding eutting- Witnesses:

edges extending lengthwise of the feed move- EDWARD J. MERCER, ment, as well as transversely thereof, to out the HENRY D. HosKINs,

materials into blocks,substantially as set forth. Both of- 9 Birchm Lane, London, 1 7.. 0. 

